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Senior Workforce Lead
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (FTC 12 MONTHS)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
284-24-6459985-MHSCC
Employer
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
1 Printing House Street
Town
Birmingham
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/07/2024 23:59

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Senior Workforce Lead

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

This role is responsible for project managing the resourcing and recruitment plan in the context of improving WMCPC in the next 12 months, working closely with clinical and non-clinical leaders

As Senior Workforce Lead you will give professional and practical advice on resourcing strategies, retention strategies, drawing on NHS best practice, CIPD advice where applicable, and project managing recruitment drives, workforce planning  and programmes

Main duties of the job

•          Responsible for delivery of complex resourcing and project management change projects requiring senior engagement

•          Develop and deliver resourcing plans and coaching to senior leaders

•          Manage defined range of resourcing workstreams and projects generating documentation, data sets and progress reports as appropriate

•          Develop culture of retention of staff across WMCPC

•          Post requires high levels of judgement, analysis and interaction to drive clear solutions and recommendations that post holder will be responsible for implementing within remit of defined projects.

•          Provide effective and innovative leadership and management, ensuring clear direction concerning resourcing solutions and effective utilisation of resources.

•          Use professional knowledge and expertise to engage new audiences, make connections and develop relationships with key stakeholders outside of the organisation, and to project manage the WMCPC resourcing plan for the next 12 months so as to maximise the likelihood of their success.

•          Identify and work autonomously on developing employer brand of WMCPC, work with senior managers to define the unique selling points in the local and national mental health systems, and, to drive forward and manage milestones and key deliverables in the resourcing plan.

•          Monitor risks and slippage and escalate issues where deliverables cant be met, but with well-considered mitigation options.

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is the Lead Provider of the West Midlands CAMHS Provider Collaborative (WMCPC) - an integrated provision of specialist mental health, learning disability and autism services, for young people aged 12-18.

Provider collaboratives like ours have been established across England to encourage closer regional partnership working. This means that for the first time, pathway and budget management is WMCPC’s responsibility, giving us the autonomy and opportunity to reinvest savings into community and step-down services that our region’s young people need the most.

Here in the West Midlands - and across the country – those who need an inpatient admission experience either a long wait for a bed or are admitted to hospitals far from home.

We hope that by working collaboratively, using local data and listening and engaging with our service users, we will be able to reduce the number of young people admitted to inpatient services, drive down length of stay, bring care closer to home and ultimately improve the outcome and experience of every young person we see.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Post graduate qualifications (masters) or equivalent
  • CIPD Membership
  • Evidence of continual professional development
  • Evidence of formal management development or relevant experience
Desirable criteria
  • Coaching qualification

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Extensive resourcing and recruitment skills and experience
  • Demonstrable engagement and knowledge of Inclusive strategies, e.g. in recruitment
  • Knowledge of NHS Strategy and Policy, including resourcing and recruitment approaches
  • Knowledge and Experience of working with colleagues with protected characteristics, e.g. staff networks
  • Knowledge, understanding and experience in managing risk
  • Experience in managing complex People, Recruitment, Retention projects
  • Experience in training provision
Desirable criteria
  • Familiarity with IT based management and information systems
  • Experience in managing complex organisational change projects
  • Experience of overseas recruitment within an NHS Setting
  • Experience in budgetary and resource management Experience in workforce capacity and service planning within an acute health care setting

Analytical & Judgement Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • Ability to convey complex information in a clear and understandable format
  • Ability to analyse people data and capacity and demand data, assess projects, identifying areas for collaborative working to improve performance

Professional/Managerial Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Ability to lead on recruitment and resourcing in specialist areas, proposing changes which have a service wide impact
  • Evidence of change management skills in a complex setting
  • Ability to manage teams at multiple sites/locations
  • Ability to chair and structure meetings
  • Excellent IT skills

Personal Skills & Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Analyse and present highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to a wide range of stakeholders and groups
  • Excellent facilitative and coaching skills
  • Ability to mediate and resolve conflict situations successfully where there is resistance to change
  • Ability to work as part of a multi-professional team, engaging clinical leaders
  • Assertive and confident
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to speak different languages that will aid communication with BSOL and international communities.
  • Experience of communicating at Chief Officer and Board Level

Other Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
  • Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required
  • Able to travel and work from a number of different locations

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderCare quality commission - GoodStonewall Silver 2022Disability confident employerThe Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (enei) is the UK's leading employer network covering all aspects of equality and inclusion issues in the workplace.Disability confident committedInvesting in VolunteersHappy to Talk Flexible Working

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jo Hemming
Job title
Ass. Director of Quality Assurance & Improvement
Email address
[email protected]
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